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My copy of Kontact comes with three organ sounds. These are labelled as
"Voix Humaine 8'", "Pos-Scharff", and my personal favourit, "Fonds +
Quint". Does any of that mean *anything* to anybody here?
I'm trying to play organ music, but obviously I know nothing about
organs! ;-) Oh yeah, and the digital instrument has only 5 octive range.
I guess they couldn't be bothered to record the rest or something. Has
some *serious* reverb too - presumably from the hall where they recorded
it. It's actually hard to play in time due to the lag between hitting a
key and the note sounding at full volume... the reverberations are
confusing my timing! :-S
On a completely unrelated note... [see what I did there?] does anybody
know what "sforzando" means? (Or how you pronouce it!) Similarly,
"flageolet". (Damn, so many instruments, so many specialised terms...
I'm learning so much just by fiddling with this software. Get it?
Fiddling? Oh never mind!)
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:41:41 +0200, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> On a completely unrelated note... [see what I did there?] does anybody
> know what "sforzando" means?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_(music)#Sudden_changes
> (Or how you pronouce it!)
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sforzando
> Similarly, "flageolet".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flageolet
Are we learning yet?
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:41:41 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> My copy of Kontact comes with three organ sounds. These are labelled as
> "Voix Humaine 8'", "Pos-Scharff", and my personal favourit, "Fonds +
> Quint". Does any of that mean *anything* to anybody here?
I *think* those descriptions are Gaelic; I can't find my dictionary,
though, to check. I know someone who speaks a dialect of Gaelic, though,
so he might be able to help translate.
Jim
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:41:41 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull>
wrote:
>Similarly,
>"flageolet".
Posh name for tin whistle :) Flage-o-let
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Stephen
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:41:41 +0200, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> My copy of Kontact comes with three organ sounds. These are labelled as
> "Voix Humaine 8'", "Pos-Scharff", and my personal favourit, "Fonds +
> Quint". Does any of that mean *anything* to anybody here?
They appear to be organ stops. Presumably, the samples are from the "Notre
Dame de Budapest" sampling library.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> "Voix Humaine 8'",
8 foot long "voice of humans" pipes.
> It's actually hard to play in time due to the lag between hitting a
> key and the note sounding at full volume...
This is actually pretty normal with pipe organs.
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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>> On a completely unrelated note... [see what I did there?] does anybody
>> know what "sforzando" means?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_(music)#Sudden_changes
Hmm. OK. So it's a sudden yet unspecified sound emphasis?
>> (Or how you pronouce it!)
>
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sforzando
Ouch! :-S
>> Similarly, "flageolet".
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flageolet
Hmm. Interesting. There are two versions of the Harp instrument, marked
"normal" and "flageolet". So I'm guessing there is another sense to the
word...
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>> My copy of Kontact comes with three organ sounds. These are labelled
>> as "Voix Humaine 8'", "Pos-Scharff", and my personal favourit, "Fonds
>> + Quint". Does any of that mean *anything* to anybody here?
>
> They appear to be organ stops.
I would guess so. I don't know much about this sort of thing...
> Presumably, the samples are from the
> "Notre Dame de Budapest" sampling library.
Well, Kontact *is* a sample library. (And one costing a vast amount of
money.) Of course, it's possible that not *all* of the samples it
contains were produced specially though... although certainly the
orchestral ones appear to be.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> "Voix Humaine 8'",
>
> 8 foot long "voice of humans" pipes.
I figured it might be something like that.
>> It's actually hard to play in time due to the lag between hitting a
>> key and the note sounding at full volume...
>
> This is actually pretty normal with pipe organs.
I've never had the opportunity to play one - as you can probably imagine...
[I do have something of a fascination with them though. Still, it's not
something you can learn easily. They are rare instruments. And they're
LOUD!]
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:49:35 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> On a completely unrelated note... [see what I did there?] does anybody
>>> know what "sforzando" means?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_(music)#Sudden_changes
>
> Hmm. OK. So it's a sudden yet unspecified sound emphasis?
Not really unspecified; it's accented to an extent.
>>> (Or how you pronouce it!)
>>
>> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sforzando
>
> Ouch! :-S
"sfort-san-do". It's Italian.
Jim
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